Natural-form doll



Jan. 13. 1925. V 1,523,150

J. WILLIAMS NATURAL FORM DOLL Filed Aug. 31, 1923 I 2 Sheets-Sheet l $9 7 9- J. WILLIAMS NATURAL FORM DOLL Filed Aug. 31, 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 attain;

Patented Jan. 13, 1925.

JENNIE WILLIAMS, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

NATURAL-FORM DOLL.

Application filed August 31, 1923. Serial No. 660,386.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JENNIE lVILLIAMs, a

citizen of the United States of America, re

siding at the city and county .of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented anew and useful Natural-Form Doll, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new type of doll, and the objects of my invention are: First. To provide a doll that has a natural baby form.

Second. To provide dolls that have the true form of the babies of human beings,'but in which the hair, eyes, nose and lips are represented, but do not project from the head or face, and having a skin member of flesh color. v Third. To provide a doll that represents the babies of human beings, that is unbreakable, and that is soft, pliable and yielding, and that will feel, in the hands of children, somewhat like babies feel: in the hands and arms of their mothers.

I attain these objects by the cooperating set of forms of the different members of the bodies of human babies illustrated herein, in which:

Figure 1 is the form of the face member of my natural form of baby doll.

Fig. 2 is the form of the .central top and back part of the head of the doll, down to and including the back part of the neck.

Fig. 3 is the right and left sides of the head down to the neck of the doll.

Fig. 4 is the right and left hand form for the breast and stomach of the doll.

Fig. 5 is the right and left hand side of the back of the doll and of the outside part of the right and left legs and of the outside portions of the top, heel and toe portions of the feet of the legs of the doll, these parts being all formed of one continuous form member.

Fig. 6 is the form of the seat and the inner portion of the right and left legs and of the top inner heel and toe portions of the feet of the doll.

Fig. 7 is the sole form for the feet of the doll.

Fig. 8 is the form of the arms and the hand, the thumb and the fingers of the doll.

Fig. 9 illustrates a front face view of a doll, embodying my invention.

Fig. 10 is a side view thereof, and

Fig. 11 illustrates a rear or back view of a doll embodying my invention.

Similar letters of reference refer to V similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings;

The numeral 11 designates the face portion of my doll. This face portion is formed of a circular disc-shaped piece of flesh colored silk, which is cut out like the form illustrated in Figure 1. The lower edge portion is provided with a straight line edge portion that depends with a slight inward curve 13 from the lower part of the face member, and this straight line edge forms the front of the neck of the doll. The chin portion, as well as the curvature of the face, is formed by placing the face member 11 over a roundish block, of the shape the head is to be when finished.

To this face form member 11 of my doll, I sew the rear head form member 2 and the two opposite side form members 8, all three pieces of which are provided with neck forming ends 2 A and 3 These head forming m embers are then filled with any suit able soft filling material such as cotton,

after which the neck portions are gathered in to form the neck member, and the face member is shaped to form the chin member 6.

The head of the doll, as thus formed, is of a roundish, spherical shape that represents the general shape of a babys head, and I form upon it, and the head can then be completed, by painting upon its face member 11, eyes 1 of any predetermined color, eyebrows 1 of the same color the hair is to be, nose. indicating lines 1 in preferably black lines, and lines 1 representing the lips of red color, and the hair 1 is painted on the head in any predetermined color, and can be painted to represent any of several ways of combing and arranging the hair of babies.

To the neck portion of the head of the doll I sew the upper ends 9 of the two combined breast and stomach members 4: of the doll, and also the two upper edges 10 of the two pattern members 5 that form'the back part of the doll, which pieces also form the outside of the legs and feet por= tions of the doll.

The two duplicate pattern members 6 that form the inside of the legs and feet each of the arms, with its hand andfingers,

are then sewed together, and after being filled; with cotton or some-other suitable soft material, are sewed to the shoulder portions of the two breast and back pat tern members 4 and 5.

All of the-pattern members of my doll have beengivensuch accurately andr'mechanically designed lines of form and shape that they fit naturally to each other in such a manner that they can be sewed together with neat seams, and when'filled fully and tightly with cotton or any other suitable filling, they assume a 'very close 'resemblance in graceful outlines, to the heads, bodies, legs, feet, arms, hands and fingers of live babies.

Furthermore, my natural baby representing dolls aremade only and always of the general natural height, thickness and breadth and color of skin and also with the head, arms. legs and feet, of general sizes of babies. Consequently my natural baby representing doll is especially adapted to represent a live baby in the arms of a child, as it hasthe soft, velvety feeling of babies, the same shape in every detail, and it is so soft-and pliable that children cannot injure themselves when playing with it;

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: a V

A fabric doll, comprising legs. made up of duplicate pieces forming the inside halves of the legs and feet, said pieces terminating in front where the body begins, and in'the rear, at the small of the back,

duplicate pieces which form the outside: halves of the legs and feet and also the 5 back, said leg and back portions being stitched together :along their adjoining edges, duplicate sole pieces forsaid feet, duplicate pieces which form the front of the body, and which arestitched to each other along'their adjoining edges and to the parts'forming the back, the lower ends ofsaid front pieces being stitched tothe upper end of the pieces forming the'inside halves of the legs, duplicate pieces which their adjoining edges, and said neck portions being stitched to the upper ends of said back and front portions, the casing thus formed being stuffed withasuitable material, and

said head beingpainted to represent'the facial fea'turesand the hair.

In testimony whereofcI aflix my signature iii-presence of two Witnesses;

lVit'nesses: V

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JENNIEWILLIAMS; 

